Washington [593]
45. Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 290.
46. Marshall, Life of George Washington, 467.
47. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 188.
48. Jefferson, Writings, 1318.
49. Ibid.
50. WWF,35:138. Letter to the Secretary of War, July 13, 1796.
51. Brookhiser, Founding Father, 78-79.
52. WWF,35:296. Letter to George Washington Parke Custis, November 28, 1796.
53. Wills, Cincinnatus, 100.
54. WWR,662-63. Letter to Bushrod Washington, November 9, 1787.
55. Thompson, “In the Hands of a Good Providence,” 8.
56. WWF,33:319. Letter to James McHenry, April 8, 1794.
57. PWCF,4:211. Letter to Theodorick Bland, August 15, 1786.
58. Freeman, George Washington, 7:493.
59. PWRT,1:219. Letter to David Humphreys, June 26, 1797.
60. WWR,823. Letter to John Francis Mercer, September 26, 1792.
61. Ibid., 699. Letter to Benjamin Lincoln, October 26, 1788.
62. Ibid., 712. “Fragments of a Draft of the First Inaugural Address,” ca. January 1789.
63. PWP, 1:244. Letter from James Madison, January 14, 1789.
64. Ibid., 2:419. Letter to James Madison, ca. May 31, 1789.
65. Leibiger, Founding Friendship, 121.
66. PWP, 4:176. Letter to Gouverneur Morris, October 13, 1789.
CHAPTER FIFTY: THE TRAVELING PRESIDENCY
1. WWR,737-38. Letter to John Adams, May 10, 1789.
2. PWP, 4:132. “Thanksgiving Proclamation,” October 3, 1789.
3. Jefferson, Writings, 1319.
4. Diaries,5:464. Diary entry for October 17, 1789.
5. DiariesA,348. Diary entry for October 21, 1789.
6. Ibid., 349. Diary entry for October 23, 1789.
7. Irving, Life of George Washington, 562.
8. Ibid., 563.
9. DiariesA,350. Diary entry for October 24, 1789.
10. Diaries,5:475.
11. DiariesA,351. Diary entry for October 25, 1789.
12. PWP, 4:228. Letter from John Hancock, October 26, 1789.
13. Ibid., 162. Letter to Betty Washington Lewis, October 12, 1789.
14. Ibid., 162-63.
15. Decatur, Private Affairs of George Washington, 83.
16. Miles, George and Martha Washington, 21.
17. DiariesA,352.
18. Ibid. Diary entry for October 28, 1789.
19. Thompson, Statements Regarding the Physical Appearance, 48.
20. Diaries,5:480-81.
21. Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 278.
22. DiariesA, 353. Diary entry for October 29, 1789.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 356. Diary entry for November 3, 1789.
25. Ibid., Diary entry for November 5, 1789.
26. Ibid., 357. Diary entry for November 6, 1789.
27. Freeman, George Washington, 6:245.
28. DiariesA,358. Diary entry for November 13, 1789.
29. Ibid., 333.
30. Ibid., 341.
31. PWP, 9:217. Letter to Lafayette, November 21, 1791.
32. Miles, George and Martha Washington, 25.
33. Cadou, George Washington Collection, 134.
34. Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, 408.
35. Irving, Life of George Washington, 617.
36. Miles, George and Martha Washington, 17.
37. Barratt and Miles, Gilbert Stuart, 191.
38. Brookhiser, Founding Father, 165.
39. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 7.
40. Decatur, Private Affairs of George Washington, 310.
41. Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, 41.
42. PWRT, 2:324. Letter to George Washington Parke Custis, June 13, 1798.
43. PWP,8:52.
44. Diaries,6:26.
45. PWP, 5:193. Letter to Gouverneur Morris, March 1, 1790.
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: THE STATE OF THE PRESIDENT
1. Maclay, Diary of William Maclay, 179.
2. WWR,749. “First Annual Message to Congress,” January 8, 1790.
3. Maclay, Diary of William Maclay, 182.
4. Irving, Life of George Washington, 572.
5. WWR,503. Letter to Lund Washington, March 19, 1783.
6. PWCF,5:411-12. Letter to David Stuart, November 5, 1787.
7. Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 297.
8. Burns and Dunn, George Washington, 79.
9. Adams, Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, 1:565.
10. WWR,502. Letter to Joseph Jones, March 18, 1783.
11. WWF, 26:446-47. “General Orders,” May 21, 1783.
12. WWR,757. Letter to David Stuart, March 28, 1790.
13. Ibid., 756.
14. Ibid., 760. Letter to David Stuart, June 15, 1780.
15. PWP,4:266. “To the Society of Quakers,” ca. October 1789.
16. WWR,1118.
17. Bordewich, Washington, 39.
18. Winik, Great Upheaval,